Much of the mainstream coverage, meanwhile, has taken the protests more or less at face value: young people rightly angered by a dysfunctional — and increasingly heavy-handed — state. This is only part of the picture. It cannot explain the chants for a jihadi who murdered Jewish children; nor the lyrics in the same song revelling in the murder of 90 innocent people in the Bataclan massacre. It is true that many of the schools affected by shortages are in the banlieues, where ethnic minorities have long been concentrated on the edges of French cities, sprawling concrete suburbs, afflicted with crime and ennui, that have been a thorn in the side of the Fifth Republic for decades. But that fact does not illuminate the glee with which some students have embraced violence against their teachers, many of whom share their grievances. Figures from what one might call the Global Right
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